I wanna see a community for it cause I like using Alpine

  • coltzero@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    Are people using it also as desktop or server OS? I only know that it is popular for docket images.

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      1 year ago

      That is the exact question I had on my mind when coming to this post.

    • jdkfbdjdfhfkndd@dormi.zoneOP
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      1 year ago

      I personally use it as a desktop.

      I don’t understand, isn’t what makes it a desktop or a server what you want to do with it? Because it has just enough apps and utilities for me to work with it.

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        1 year ago

        Yes, it is. I have only never seen it to be used for something else then docker images so far.

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        1 year ago

        Tips and tricks? I want to install on a chromebook I have, only 16gb mmc so a light distro would be great.

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          1 year ago

          I just picked Alpine Linux for majority of security and efficiency out of the box. It still required a lot of configuration, for lowering attack surface and hardening.

          I know you asked for a lightweight distro, but from a security standpoint, I recommend using whatever allows you to relock the bootloader. Which looking up I dont see any choice. If relocking doesnt matter, then any distro for speed is basically any distro that comes with as minimal stuff as possible.

          Also, I might be wrong so do some research

  • sneakyninjapants@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Same same. I don’t really have anything to post about Alpine atm, but I’m always open to a conversation about it. Someone could of course create a new community, but the Linux community on here seems small enough right now that people can just post about Alpine here if they’d like.

    • RomanRoy@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Yes. As long as communities aren’t that large yet I think it is pointless to split so much.

      Just post here.